Ponyshock: "Pony Party Platoon"

The sound of the door opening startled Nova. She saw five strange creatures come bursting through.

What in the Nova's thoughts were interupted as a bullet whizzed past her. She then notice one of the strange creatures was charging at her. Right, I have no idea how to fight these things, time to go on the defense.

With that thought, Nova prepared herself to fly above the creature as it was about to hit her. She then heard Twisted shout something about closing their eyes. Deciding it best to follow her advice, Nova covered her eyes, planning to spring in to what little air there was when she opened her eyes.

Screams roared out as the 3 charging splicers reached the herd, the group managed to turn their guns on them by the time they reached to attack. Ark...being the nervous evervigilant pony that he was...watched as a pony's head explode upon contact with his 10mm round.

Lucky shot rookie!

Twists cries out in pain forced her to get back on her hooves to defend herself, calling out to her companions to watch their vision. But everypony was only greeted with a flicker as the spell failed. Starry having also taken a shot herself, was trying to act 'Sword Mare-ish' but still seemed not to have the hang of it as she and the splicer's pipe met and they participate of minor proportions, neither able to get a good swing on the other without blocking.

Sky calmly aimed her gun and took a shot, gutting splicer #1 and pushing him back against the wall, covering Spark Facade's flank as he blindly ran past him. Scrap managed even better, managing to fit in a couple of decent shots that vaporized the revolver splicer's upper body..

Sparks wored off that the spell would succeed and charged forward despite it not occurring, getting past the splicer aiming for him with a wrench he managed to grab the shotgun before the splicer could get off another good shot. They struggled a bit as a shot went off into ceiling, and with one final kick, Sparks had control of the gun, but it was out of ammo. The splicer retaliated with a hard punch against Spark's temple with his ...fisthoof....

As Starry's battle continue, the splicer managed to slip past her sword and lay a decent strike against her left shoulder, causing her left forleg to go down involuntarily and the splicer to laugh out with spittle flying out and staining Starry's glasses.

The Splicer that carried the crowbar struggled to get back up but did so slowly, using a hoof to cover his stomach where his organs hanged out, slowly sliding across the dusty floor, staining everything with blood in its path. He limped over to help his comrade with the shotgun.

Nova tried flying upward like a coward, but failed as the ceiling was only 7 feet off the floor and shots hitting the high wall forced her to remain grounded. A single splicer ran up to her, and with a large backswing, smashed a crowbar against her face breaking her nose and throwing her to the floor. The splicer giggled as he lept on top of her to hold her down and pulled out a small syringe with a red liquid...

Name

Status

Weapon

Leadhead Splicer #1

Pissed Off

Lever-Action Shotgun

Leadhead Splicer #2

Dead

.357 Revolver

Splicer #1

Gutted

Wrench

Splicer #2

Healthy

Crowbar

Splicer

Splicer #3

Healthy

Lead Pipe

Notes:-Twist is mildly injured-Starry is about to get hit again-Sparks is between two enemies with an empty gun-Nova needs assistance

Starry was hit fairly hard by the pipe-wielding splicer in the shoulder, but maintained a grip on her weapon. She couldn't remember ever successfully hitting something with a sword before, and she had a reputation as a Sword Mare to live up to!

... Not to mention a room-full of ponies whose lives were partially dependent on Starry's success. She gripped the sword firmly, making a second attempt at slicing the pipe-holding slicer in half.

Atriark heard a crowbar cracking bone and he turned to see a disfigured pony pulling out a syringe with a strange reddish liquid. That can't be good. Not wanting to risk hitting Nova, Atriark charged the disfigured once-pony. He tackled the Thing and punched it as many times as he could.

Sky quickly reloaded her weapon, seeing as her intended target saw still alive. With a click of her shotgun she pointed it back to the gutted splicer, "why won't you just DIE!" She yelled and fired away.

Twisted swore at her lack of concentration, knowing that it was the cause of her failed spell. Looking at the combat she tried to formulate a plan and then she had one, but before she did anything she Noticed Nova about to be stuck with something that was probably not pleasant, but the Zebra was already dealing with that. Struggling to her feet she looked around again just to get a layout of the grounds.

"Sky! Help Spark! I'll see what I can do to help Starry" She commanded, focusing her magic on the pipe the pony fighting Starry with was wielding to attempt and force it out of his hands and beat him with it.

Scrap's electric blasts managed to vaporize the top half of the pony-thing that had been menacing the group with the revolver. He didn't take the time to watch it fall though as he moved on to the next target. Lining up the one that formerly held the shotgun in his hooves...whatever those were, he opened fire with his lightning pistol, sending three bolts of electric death streaming toward it.

All the lights, colors, an noises was playing havoc on Sparks. He just had to focus. Right now he was being flanked, he had just wrestled the shotgun out of that monstrosity's fleshy talons. Sadly the shot that fired, nearly missing his head, was the last one. The weapon was no better then a club right now, something that wouldn't stop the much stronger adversary.

He quickly glanced over his shoulder, the smaller pony behind him was wounded, grasping his stomach where he had been shot. He saw that Scrap leveled his weapon toward him, with some quick thinking, he used the splicer as a springboard and dived under the large beast, hoping to shield himself from the blast.

Starry tries to get up and swing her sword at the splicer, but with his speed he just laughed and spat on her some more as she failed....until he took her sword to the chest, and began to spit out blood on Starry's face. Gripping his lead pipe he made single swing and cracked Starry across the temple, dazing her and throwing her against the floor.

Twist scream out as she tried to take the splicer's pipe, but he only gasped as he felt the tug pathetically whip the pipe from his hand and clumsily try to swing at him, missing...by a huge margin . He turned his attention to the blue mare with metaphorical stars and birds circulating around her head.

Taking another shot with her gun to bring the basted down, Scrap opened fire and Sky loaded another round and shot the struggling splicer, exploding him in blood and gore and covering Spark in blood as he attempted to buck it.Both the leadheads were now gone.

Ark came up and bucking knocked the splicer over Nova, off of her but that didn't stop the Splicer's search for a victim, Ark tried to bring his hooves up to buck in the splicer's face but missed every time as the Splicer rolled his body around and used his hoofhand to jam the syringe into Ark's flank...looking would show the fluid slowly escaping into Arck's system...

Notes:-Starry is dazed and cannot focus on any actions but crawling-Ark now has an unknown substance in his system-Nova's splicer and Starry's splicer remain alive....-Spark now has a red coat

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Sky looked around she turned her target into blood, to see Atriark get injected with something. Sky wasnt going to stand with this, She quickly reload her caravan shotgun. And took into full gallop she planned on doing something crazy, "hey fucker, fight with someone your own size!?" Sky yelled at the splicer as she unloaded both shells of her shotgun.

(roll to Shot both shells into splicer over ark. Guns 84)(perk: shotgun surgeon)

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Starry tried to scramble to her hooves to run, or, failing that, crawl away from the pony with the pipe. She needed time to get her senses back, after that hard hit to her temple. She desperately struggled to pull herself away from the battle and toward the edge of the hallway.

This situation called for a tactical retreat on Starry's part. Hopefully her allies would lend her some assistance, considering the pinch she had gotten herself into. Starry didn't want to admit that she was panicking.

Atriark felt...unnatural. The fluid injected into him made him feel almost uncomfortable.It had a dull pain to it.

The zebra shook his head, he didn't have time for this. Other ponies were still in danger. He didn't want to kill this...whatever it was, but he doubted it could be reasoned with, but he could at least try. Atriark prepared himself for any show of aggression towards the...thing.

"Leave! You are out numbered and out gunned. All you are going to do is throw what little life you have away. Leave here and you can live on." Atriark shouted to the pony-thing that stabbed him with the syringe. Despite him trying to show mercy and compasion, Atriark was ready to punch out at the thing if it tried to attack.

Nova, now free to move, realised she needed to find something to fight with, and quick. If she couldn't then she really was screwed. She then remembered that these creatures entered with weapons, and that the ones who were already dealt with will have dropped them. She frantically began fo search for a weapon.

{Perception 5, To find where one of the weapons went. Roll Twice}{Agility 8, To reach weapon (if found)}

Twisted was getting sick and tired of this. Drawing her 9mm she walked right up behind the Splicer attacking Starry Night, placed the gun against it's head and attempted to unloaded the clip into the bastards head.

[Guns: 18 Unload 9mm clip into the back of Starry Splicers head Point Blank. Side Note: If I miss I'm gonna flip a table]

The barrage of fire both in bullets and in electrical death rays took down the second pony-thing that he had set his sights on. Now that the ones that held the guns, which were the highest threat in Scrap's opinion, were dead he turned his focus towards the one that was currently attacking one of the ponies he didn't know, a wildly colored pegasus. After adjusting his position to get a better shot he fired, sending 3 bolts of lightning streakingthree towards his intended target.

Techno, only now coming to his senses, glanced around, and saw combat raging around him. He shook his head, took a deep breath and sprang into action. He grabbed Starry with magic and tried pulling her away from the advancing... thing. He wasn't quite sure what they were, but they- NO, focus! He shook his head again and ran over to where Twisted had a gun against it's head. He slid to a stop, his horn glowing with it's signature neon blue, and fired a bolt of magic at the thing, point blank.

(magic 60, rolling to pull Starry away a few meters and knock back/cripple or fling the thing away if already dead)

The splicer with the lead pipe chased after Starry, swinging several times trying to hit her, but each time hitting only the floor as Starry scrambled out of the way of each hit. The splicer was so focused on the pursuit, that he barely noticed Twisted coming up behind him, and blasting his brains out. He fell over, limp and lifeless.

Sky took two shots at the final remaining splicer from her shotgun. The first barely grazed the splicer's thick hide, but the second penetrated deep into the splicer's flank, causing him to yelp in pain. His screams were cut short, as a shot from Scrap's lightning blaster hit him directly in the jaw, causing him to spasm violently as the contents of his throat and jaw were liquidated. He collapsed on top of Atriark, before he was able to lay another hoof-hand on him. Blood, mixed with the vile fluids which filled the splicer's lungs, flowed eagerly from the hole in his throat over Atriark's chest.

Sparks pulled himself out from under the fresh corpse, his coat slick with the still warm blood. He stretched out his limbs, checking to see if he had inured himself. Satisfied with his condition he opened his mouth to speak, but nearly gagged as he ingested the noxious odor that he was bathed in.

Silently cursing to himself for not being more prepared for that, he felt like a greenhorn all over again. "Being on that sinking ship must have shook me more then I expected." he thought to himself.

He shook himself and wiped some of the gore from his face, "Is...Is everyone alright?" he asked, generally worried for everyone, even Twisted Vision. She did not sit well with him, but she was a potential ally in this situation, a situation that did not allow for picky beggars. At worse she was an enemy that he knew some things about, and as his instructor used to say, better to be with the enemy that you know over the enemy that you don't.

Twisted panted heavily and looked at everyone "Anyone who has any medical knowledge... Get to work on the others..." She panted, the leg of the shoulder raised in the air as she limped off and started looking for items. She didn't even have a goal for what to find she was just looking.

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The shot from his lightning pistol managed to finish off another pony-thing this time leaving it draped over Ark spewing blood and other fluids onto the wounded zebra.

Putting away his pistol, though keeping it at easy access should any more of those things show up, he walked over to where his zebra associate lay in a growing pool of fluid. He attempted to flip the body of the thing, which was more hideous up close, off of him.

"Okay, we should probably refrain from yelling from now on...though everypony-thing probably knows were here now." He said loud enough for the others to hear but quiet enough that it wasn't a yell.

Sky reloaded her shotgun after she had shot the last one, she looked over to the others. Some were good, other clearly seen better days, either way the one that seemed to be of any concern was Ark. Who she seen had been injected with some unknown substance, though she wasnt showing any immediate signs of anything that seemed bad. She just lazily trotted over to pick up the lever action shotgun the splicer dropped, seemed good enough to pick so why not.

Sky didn't know much about medicine or other things of the subject, but she knew some things enough to help. But without knowledge about what Ark was injected with, she could do nothing.

Atriark, with some help from Scrap, pushed the pony thing off of him. With blood, guts, and other unidentifiable fluids on his armored stable Barding and his striped coat, he rose. The stable zebra was concerned about the syringe and what it contained, but was otherwise unharmed.

Atriark was a bit cross that he didn't have a chance to see of the things could be reasoned with. He'd much rather get through this dead city with as little killing as possible. Hopefully, he'd get a chance to see of these once-ponies had any reasoning left.

"Everypony," Atriark said, his voice a bit shaky. "I was injected with something."

Sky stared at Atriark, "I know, but that substance isnt anything i ever seen before. An i know my chems, what ever you were injected with we cant do anything cept look around and get some answers from that pony on the pipbuck earlier." Sky stared at the rest of the group, "Now the rest of you, get your acts together and help starry up, and can anyone help twisted look for something to help her shoulder." Sky coked and reloaded the lever action, her caravan shotgun in her saddlebags. "Lets all get along, find the others, find out where we are, and i need to see somepony after this is all done. So if any of you who disagree with me please say so now, or just stay quiet and lets wait for the pony who called us to call us again." Sky looked at the others, to see who would oppose her first.

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Sparks didn't have to be told twice, he ignored his stench and shook off the excess blood that coated his mane.

He gave the others what seemed to be a cursory glance, the zebra was a little off balance, he would have to mention that to the large unicorn who must have been a medic from his equipment. The Dark Unicorn looked pained, but she was still standing...

Rushing over to Starry, he helped the mare up, ever careful to make sure his eyes didn't wander... "There you are miss Night." He said in a gentlecolt's fashion.

Starry got up on her hooves with Spark's assistance. She nodded to him as a gesture of appreciation. She was experimenting with touching forehead, which had been struck by a lead pipe and left a nasty purple bruise. She refrained from touching it directly, as it would send a nasty wave of pain through her head. That wasn't even counting the bullet in her flank.

She was still angry with Twisted over their argument. Even moreso, now that it was revealed that her shouting drew the crazy ponies over to them. She was about to reignite their discussion over leadership, albeit quietly this time, when Atriark spoke up about being injected.

"What?" Starry inquired. She wasn't a doctor, but she had some training with medicine. Still, Techno would be far more qualified to diagnose the mystery substance. "Techno, why don't you take a look at it? I'll see about getting these bullets out of us."

Techno obliged, and pulled out some supplies from his saddlebags. He passed Starry a few doses of painkillers, some healing potions and a roll of gauze, as well as some surgical tools. Starry got straight to work removing the bullet from her flank, while Techno tried to identify the substance Atriark had been injected with.

(Techno gave me permission to Godmod him until he gets back sometime next week.)